Figurative Language Game

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

“She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

"The ocean waves lashed out at the boat, and the storm continued to brew."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

"Have you ever played on an Oculus Rift? It's a virtual reality system."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What type of figurative language gives human characteristics to objects or animals?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is NOT an example of ONOMATOPOEIA?

• Buzz

• Book

• Meow

• Bam

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which figurative language is an exaggeration that is so dramatic, no one would believe it?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• analogy

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"My backpack weighs a TON!" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• personification

• analogy

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two things?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

identify the figure of speech:

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

• alliteration

• consonance

• repetition

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4